"dice with death"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Garson, thanks for that quote. It must not have popped up because I didn't
search before 1800.

Perhaps ECCO or EEBO contains similar antecedents.

But I'll bet not with the verb "dice."

JL

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:52 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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